The Southeastern Conference returned to the top of the College Football world last year when Alabama won another National Championship. This just a year after Bama was rolled in the national semi-finals by Ohio State. Already this season, the Crimson Tide have been labeled the preseason favorite in the Coaches Poll, and they’ll certainly be […]
NFL Training Camps have started, High School Football Practice is underway, and College Football Practice starts this week, which means for most of the time moving forward I’m going to be talking about football in one form or another. But before that, another great athletic event begins on Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The […]
In the sweltering heat of the Summer comes this week the first sign of fall. NFL Training Camp opens for all of the leagues’ 32 teams this week. Training camp, and the professional game has evolved over the years to the point where it’s less important than it used to be for the veteran and […]
We all know that nothing stays the same forever and that life is about evolving and changing. As we get older, the things we remember from our younger years become more of a distant memory and simply fade away. This week, one of those things happened. Since 1957 the Atlantic Coast Conference has had at […]
In my television career (if you can even call it that), I must admit that I had to cover more than one of what are called “Media Days” whether that be for a conference, a particular school or a single school division. Most of the time you don’t need these things at the high school […]
The United States has always been a country of invention and innovation. From barbed wire to the electric light bulb; from the abacus to the personal computer, this is a country where someone has taken a vision and literally changed something positive about American life. For sports fans, some innovations worked like ESPN, which despite […]
I will never forget the first time I saw it. I must have been around 9 years old and it was at the Mountain View Elementary School in Roanoke, Virginia. My little 9 – 10 year old basketball team had a game scheduled in the Mountain View gym on that Saturday afternoon. There were always […]
You may have heard that this is an Olympic year. The every four-year festival known as the Games of the (whatever) Olympiad begin on August 5th in Rio. You’ve no doubt heard most of the talk being centered on the Zika Virus and its widespread effect on Brazil. It’s already scared off some athletes, mostly […]
The Major League Baseball Draft is over. The College World Series is in progress and that means that once again for small cities and towns in the Appalachian region of the country it is time to play ball. It was 105 years ago in 1911 that the Appalachian League of professional baseball was born. It’s […]
Let’s face it, it’s less than 100 days to football season and we are in the summer sports doldrums right now. There isn’t a whole lot going on of any significance for the months of June and July so for this week’s post, I thought I would just post some random thoughts or as I […]
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